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John M. Feeney
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 12:45 am: | 
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Well said, Phil Gowan! And that you definitely have!
Phil Hind: Quite a lovely accolade you posted above. Just shows once again how all your hard work is touching the hearts and minds of so many!
That count change from the re-indexing *is* a bit scary. Any chance a directory/folder somehow got omitted from the "targets"? I mean, that seems to imply about 500 pages not currently included in the searches. (?) Yikes!
Fi: I think I followed you above, just got concerned when that big difference showed up. Weird, huh? Sorry if I seemed haughty -- didn't mean to.
Cheers! 
John Feeney |
George Behe
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:36 am: |
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John wrote:
> I mean, that seems to imply about 500 pages not
>currently included in the searches.
I'd like to invite everyone to visit my website -- I've added 500 new pages to it since last week. :-)
All my best,
George |
Pat Cook
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:50 am: |
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Good one, George. Best laugh I've had in awhile.
Warmest regards,
Cook |
Geoff Whitfield
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 9:27 pm: |
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Hello Cook, If you think that's funny, wait 'till you see a photograph of George!!
Geoff |
Randy B. Bigham
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 8:57 am: |
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Now who is Phil Gowan again? |
Andrew J.M. Maheux
Member
Username: joseph
Post Number: 299
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, August 5, 2002 - 3:10 am: |
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Oh God |
Colleen Collier
Member
Username: colleen
Post Number: 895
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 7:43 am: |
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...Speaking of Phil Gowan...  Something about today..... Just can't recall exactly..... Must be something of great Titanic importance... Hmmmm..... Give me a while... I'll think of it!
Meanwhile, if I could just get that four lined jingle out of my mind.... You know... The one written in 1893 by two sisters, Mildred J. and Dr. Patty Smith Hill. Oh well, it's a happy little tune... 
Colleen
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Brian Meister
Member
Username: davit16
Post Number: 126
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 1:31 pm: |
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Phil,
Best wishes today and every day! But mostly
today "old man"!
Happy Birthday! |
Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 4687
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 5:36 pm: |
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Ahhh...so that's the little secret that Colleen was hinting at. Happy birthday Phil!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Brian Hawley
Member
Username: olympic400
Post Number: 91
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 6:23 pm: |
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Happy Birthday Phil!
Brian
Check out my web page
http://www.bytenet.net/rmscaronia
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Jemma Hyder
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Username: farncombe1887
Post Number: 251
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 6:47 pm: |
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Happy Birthday Phil, all the best |
Pat Cook
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Username: cook
Post Number: 611
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 7:44 pm: |
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Geez, Phil, how old are you now? You'd think with all the birth certificates you've acquired you'd have your own. I haven't seen it but I HAVE heard rumors. For instance, is it true that your birth date was written in Roman Numerals?
Many happy returns of the day, sir!
Your devoted friend,
Cook |
Phillip Gowan
Member
Username: philg
Post Number: 440
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 9:47 pm: |
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Hey all, thanks (I guess!). Got to work this morning and my employees had filled my office with black balloons. (But they did bring in a big barbeque lunch and chocolate cake). Cook, its the big 5-0. But I was able to face it knowing that you had gone before to prepare the way :-). And now retirement looms just 29 days away! Am already savoring the idea of all that free time to travel around doing Titanic passenger/crew research--And getting to sleep late every morning. Sounds a little like heaven on earth :-).
Again, thanks to all for your good wishes--really appreciated on this end.
Phil |
Inger Sheil
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Username: isheil
Post Number: 1323
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 9:48 pm: |
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Happy birthday to a Titanic figure among...erm...Titanicdom.
And many more...! |
Bill Wormstedt
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Username: wormstedt
Post Number: 372
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 1:01 am: |
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Happy birthday, you old fart! :-)
From an older fart .......
(now you see why I told no one at my work when I turned 50!) |
Yuri Singleton
Member
Username: yuris
Post Number: 311
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 1:23 am: |
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Sincerest best wishes Phil! Happy Birthday.
Yuri |
Mark Baber
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Username: mab
Post Number: 484
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 2:14 am: |
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Happy birthday, OM.
MAB
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OceanicSteamNavigationCo/
http://www.greatships.net/
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Randy Bryan Bigham
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Username: rbigham
Post Number: 1074
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 5:16 am: |
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Happy B-day, you old "thang". Sorry to be so late in wishing you well. Started to call you at work today and pull the same prank as you pulled on me recently but I decided not to sully your big day! Didn't want you to choke on your cake! Seriously, though, all my best to you my friend! |
Colleen Collier
Member
Username: colleen
Post Number: 896
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 6:15 am: |
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Was THAT The tune I was humming??? .
Well, if it is any consolation, I spent part of my day in a cemetary looking for a Titanic survivor. He was as elusive in death as in life. That's o.k. I have a second chance in about a week!
(Saw my grandfather's grave for the first time though.)
Colleen
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Robert W. Collier
Member
Username: robertw
Post Number: 31
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 6:32 am: |
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Phil,
Hope you had a pleasant birthday. Colleen and I figured you cranked up the victrolla and shuffled to your favorite tunes, then after your nap played some fast action bingo down at the home. I suppose blowing the candles out in the creamed spinach must have been a mess. At least you did better than poor Geoff did, he put the record in backwards on the victrolla, and in the confusion fell over Behe's wheel chair and landed on the table, scattering poor Cook's bingo cards everwhere. Of course, getting old is no laughing matter.....especially if you date someone who can legally collect social security and people accuse you of "cradle robbing".
In all seriousness, Happy Birthday Phil !!!!! And I wish you many more to come.
Robert |
Geoff Whitfield
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Username: geoff
Post Number: 766
Registered: 11-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 9:08 am: |
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Hey Robert.....was that you disguised as matron???
Geoff |
Phillip Gowan
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Username: philg
Post Number: 441
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 2:36 pm: |
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Thanks again guys! And Robert--all that didn't sound too far off the mark! The nap sounded especially good. And I remember my parents' victrola too. Oh well, onward to 60!
Phil |
Geoff Whitfield
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Username: geoff
Post Number: 767
Registered: 11-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 3:53 pm: |
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Phil, looking forward to the day when you will join us old timers (Behe, Cook and self) in the home, by jove we'll cause some havoc!
Geoff (can't wait to reach 50) |
Phillip Gowan
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Username: philg
Post Number: 443
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 4:21 pm: |
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Geoff, and let's not forget Herbold. He'll be a good addition to "our coterie."
Phil |
Phillip Gowan
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Username: philg
Post Number: 444
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 4:32 pm: |
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PS Geoff--I hear those "homes" offer invigorating exercise routines--
1. opening and closing your eyes
2. delaying trips to the loo for minutes at a time
3. shaking
4. trying to lie still
5. chewing tender meat
6. rolling over
7. tying shoelaces
8. buttoning pajamas
9. pressing the emergency call button
10. applying salve to age spots
Someone needs to open an "Old Titanic Folks Home" where all of us can spend our twilight years together.
PG |
Ben Holme
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Username: benedict
Post Number: 445
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 4:35 pm: |
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Hey Phil,
Happy (belated) birthday! Hope you had a good one yesterday. All the best for November 1st, too, when you'll, thereafter, be able to reap the well-deserved benefits of the "rule of 75". :-)
Hope all's well at your end.
Best Wishes,
Ben |
Colleen Collier
Member
Username: colleen
Post Number: 897
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 5:48 pm: |
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(GROAN!) See what happens when I turn my back! Now that he has made enemies of y'all.... I am sure you want to meet him now! :-)
Robert wont bother you again. I've hidden ~his~ glasses, false teeth, geritol, and flattened the tires on his wheelchair.
In the famous words spoken in "The life of Brian"... "Anyone else care for a little..... giggle?"
Whew... I think I am going to take a nap!
Colleen
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Colleen Collier
Member
Username: colleen
Post Number: 898
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 5:56 pm: |
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P.S. Ben stated... be able to reap the well-deserved benefits of the "rule of 75".
I suppose that is better than reaping the well deserved (!?) benifits of the rule of thumb.
---------------------------------------------
Some have claimed that this phrase has its origins in a British common law rule which, supposedly, allowed husbands to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than their thumb. The British common law is part of a legal tradition which was a continuously evolving set of rules, set out in decisions on cases brought in English common law courts. It forms a large part of the basis of modern English and American law, as well as influencing the law in other, less important places.
Colleen
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Jason D. Tiller
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Username: jtiller
Post Number: 1088
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 10:10 pm: |
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Happy Birthday Phil, plus one day! I wish you many more to come.
Hope everything is well with you.
Best regards,
Jason |
Robert W. Collier
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Username: robertw
Post Number: 32
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 1:42 am: |
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As "matron", of the "Old Titanic Folks Home" we will include many other exciting activities besides the ones Phil put forth. Such as the Denture relay, or Spin the bedpan, or the prune eating contest. Oh, I can just hear all the excited shuffling now. Wait...no.....that's just Colleen comming to take some corrective action. (Wham!)
Robert |
John M. Feeney
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Username: jmfeeney
Post Number: 773
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 2:00 am: |
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Hello, Phil:
Well, I guess I missed it by a day. But then that just makes you one day more distinguished, right?
A belated Happy Birthday, OM!
["Hey, 50's not old!", said John, dreading his own soon-to-arrive -- but not TOO soon -- half-century mark. It just means that you remember when televisions had actual *knobs* (and rabbit ears), and were perhaps accustomed to "watching the radio" before that other new-fangled invention became widely affordable. You owned real records (with real grooves in them), and might even have been sucked in briefly by those awful 8-track tapes. Last but not least, "boom boxes" don't seem terribly oversized to you, because your first "portable" radio was about as big -- not because it was "cool", just because it was necessary!] ;^)
Cheers,
John |
Phillip Gowan
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Username: philg
Post Number: 445
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 2:21 am: |
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Thanks John-- I actually do remember getting our first television set--must have been 1955. About the time I got good and spoiled on daily cartoons the presidential elections were going to be held and even as a little tyke I was furious about all those men talking on the TV all the time instead of letting "Uncle Tiny's Party Time" come on a Dallas station. Although I would only have been 3, that is when I learned the word "convention" and knew it had a really dirty connotation :-). Still have the eight tracks--even play them now and then.
Take care,
Phil |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 4691
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 3:48 am: |
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<snort> "Uncle Tiny's Party Time" was probably a lot more intelligent.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Robert W. Collier
Member
Username: robertw
Post Number: 33
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 3:53 am: |
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Though I am not "50", I do remember as a child, the family tv was Black and White, with the twist knobs on top. We had three channels, one good, one ok, the third only so-so, depending on the weather. The set also had the "rabbit-ears", which was sometimes supplemented with tin foil. We also had 8-track tapes. Our first VCR my family got was the size of a medium suitcase and weighed as much. The "remote" was run by a wire you plugged into it. Phil, I wish I had known you still played 8 tracks, I disposed of some a few months ago and Colleen and I did not know anyone to give them to. I believe the first time I saw ANTR was on a black and white set. No joke on this, Colleen mentioned the other day she is looking for a victrolla for the front room. (it is my understanding a restored one is over a thousand dollars)
Respectfully,
Robert |
Mike Herbold
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Username: mikeh
Post Number: 336
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 8:50 am: |
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Mr. Fiftypants said: "Geoff, and let's not forget Herbold. He'll be a good addition to "our coterie."
Phil, congratulations on reaching your first half-century. Knowing how easy it is for you to find birth certificates, I won't try to lie about my age. I'll be honored to join your coterie at the appropriate time.
Mike "Heinz"bold
(Thanks for the wake-up call, Colleen. That OLD Southern Gentlemen almost got me). |
Pat Cook
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Username: cook
Post Number: 612
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 10:55 am: |
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Robert bemoaned: "I believe the first time I saw ANTR was on a black and white set."
Oh, I can top that. I was well into my teens and visiting a friend's house, who owned a color tv set, when some network was running "The Wizard of Oz". Then, when Dorothy lands and opens the door, I was amazed! I turned to my friend and blurted out, "When did they add in the COLOR STUFF?!"
Best regards, sir,
Cook |
Brian Meister
Member
Username: davit16
Post Number: 128
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 11:13 am: |
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Well, I will be 40 in a few days, but I hope
I look as good and sling wit as well as you guys
when I am (how old was that now?)
Anyway....Good excuse here to yell "hey" to
that Texan Cook, that Brilliant Brit Geoff, and
Senor Herbold!
Have a great day everybody.
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Robert W. Collier
Member
Username: robertw
Post Number: 34
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 7:38 pm: |
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Pat.....Touche'
Robert |
John M. Feeney
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Username: jmfeeney
Post Number: 774
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 7:46 pm: |
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Phil: Naturally, all of those are my own recollections -- what few I soundly retain ;^) -- with the possible exception of "watching the radio". (My older sister did that, though.)
But shades of the "birth of technology"! I remember vividly my frustration as a tot when, at certain diabolical times of the day (shortly after morning cartoons), the TV -- all three channels -- simply went blank!
The nerve of those people! What? Did they think nobody was watching then?? ;^)
So I'm definitely with you on those convention interruptions. (I'd probably *still* rather watch "Leave it to Beaver"; at least that has a plot.)
Cheers,
John |
Adam McGuirk
Member
Username: adam20
Post Number: 553
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 8:00 pm: |
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Happy Birthday, Phil.
Sorry for being late.
Adam |
Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 4693
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 5:05 am: |
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Don't worry Brian. Turning 40 isn't fatal. (Although my eyes, back, kness etc. might take issue with that.)
Happy birthday in advance.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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